AI Ads Move Into the Forecast
AI Mode Gets More Commercial Today's SEO weather is calm in the rankings, but busy in the sky above Search. The biggest story is Google's AI Mode becoming a more serious ad surface. Search Engine Roun...
Core Update Rolls In, Radar Looks Too Calm
Core Update Rolling Out Google’s May 2026 core update is the main storm system today. Google’s status dashboard says the ranking update began May 21 at 8:40 a.m. Pacific and may take up to 2 weeks to...
Core Update Rolls In, Rankings Stay Quiet
Core Update Weather The May 2026 core update is the main system moving over search today. Google’s official dashboard says it began May 21 at 8:40 a.m. Pacific and may take up to two weeks to finish....
Core Update Lands, But SERPs Are Cooling
Core Update Is the Main System The May 2026 core update is still rolling out, now on day 4, and Google’s official Search Status Dashboard says it began on May 21 at 8:40 a.m. Pacific with a rollout th...
Core Update Clouds, AI Commerce Gusts
Core Update Watch The main weather system is still the May 2026 core update, now on day 5. Google’s Search Status Dashboard says the update began May 21 at 8:40 a.m. Pacific and may take up to 2 weeks...
Search Console Gets a Visual Search Lens
Visual Search Data Arrives The biggest practical change today is Google adding multimodal search reporting in Search Console. In plain English, site owners can now see when people found them through i...
AI Search Cools, But Links Are Shifting
AI Results Are the Main Weather System The sky is calmer today, but the pressure is still coming from AI search. Search Engine Land’s latest featured SEO story says Google AI Overviews now appear in 3...
AI Mode pulls clicks into the fog
AI Mode Is the Front Moving In The strongest weather system today is AI Mode leakage from regular Search. Search Engine Roundtable reports that Google is testing links inside AI Overviews that look li...
AI Search Clouds the Click Forecast
AI Search Is Squeezing the Click Path The strongest weather system today is AI search reducing publisher traffic. Search Engine Journal covered new research this morning showing that Google AI Mode us...
Search Cools, Discover Gets Foggy
Today's Reporting Glitch The live item today is a Search Console weather-station glitch: the Crawl Stats report is missing data for September 15, 2026. Search Engine Roundtable says this appears acros...
Europe SERPs get reshuffled
EEA Search Gets Rebuilt The strongest SEO weather system is still over Europe. On September 18, Google Search Central updated its documentation to say aggregator units and supplier units now support l...